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Sternwheels On The Yukon -- Arthur E Knutson [1979]

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Books : History : English
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Foreword:
"The days of the woodburning steamboats were
so romantic. It's a shame that they can't be revived." These were the sentiments expressed by Cathryne and Jess
Knight when my wife, Claire, and I visited them in August of 1972. We were visiting as many of the old steamboat stops
as we could, on a trip that we hoped would bring to mind many forgotten incidents.
The Knights were right where
they had been back in the "good old days" -in Eagle, a small village on the Yukon river. Coming from Yukon
Territory, Canada, in- to Alaska, it was the first stop if the river was your high- way.
It was early afternoon
when we drove up in front of Biederman's store and went in to see who might be there. "I'll be with you in a
minute, Sir" Cathryne called as she continued waiting on a customer. No "grab a cart and find it yourself'
service in this little town. A few moments later she turned to us and remarked "You look very familiar to me."
I grinned and told her "If my memory is correct, in 1938, we delivered a brand new Dodge Sedan to you here in Eagle
so you could run around on the seven miles of road existing here then." A startled look came over her face.
"Yoll are so right! Now, who in the world are you?"
Memories came flooding back as I talked to these
people. Thirty-two years had passed since last we visited and there was a great deal of news to catch up on and many old
time experiences to laugh over -	More on the Dodge later.
The first time I had seen the Knights was late in Sep-
tember of 1937. We had been stuck on a sandbar in the Yukon River flats below the village of Circle City. Cathryne and
Jess were on their way "outside" and their patience being exhausted after a fifty-four hour wait for our boat
to pick them up, they had arranged to have Jim- my Dotson, a bush pilot of the first order, fly them to where we were
toiling to free the boat.?They weren't the only ones who were unhappy! It took us seventy-two hours of continuous,
grinding labor to move the two hundred and eleven foot steamboat over the top of that sandbar when a two foot depth of
water was the most that could be found anywhere and the boat drew three and a halffeet.
You may romance all you
choose about steamboating but it would be very difficult to convince a deckhand, pilot, mate or engineer of a boat stuck
on a sandbar with the water level dropping because the tributaries were freezing, that there was anything good to be
said about that damn way to make a living.
As we proceed through these pages we will be talking about the
techniques used to accomplish what appeared to be impossible tasks. It could now probably be called almost a lost art. I
felt a sense of responsibility to document the "how" of Yukon River steamboating.
You can buy books
listing the names of steamboats, displaying their pictures and perhaps giving a short run- down of where they were used.
Occasionally a few officers will be listed. Nowhere in any of the many books I read have I found any information about
how certain things were done. I have heard tourists ask questions about the way things were accomplished and what was
that thing over there used for and why is this built in such a way? Even the guides on the preserved steamboats have no
knowledge of the procedures and can give no really satisfactory answers.
I served my first four years under the
finest of steam- boat mates, Fred Racy, who was First Mate on the Steamer Yukon. He liked me and made it a point to pass
on to me as much of his vast knowledge of steamboating as I could absorb. When Fred had a stroke on board, early in the
Spring of 1940, he left a vacancy in the of- ficers ranks. I was the only person on board with a mate's license so ready
or not, I was promoted to Second Mate and a brand new set of responsibilities and experiences.
An old friend and I
had come to Washington State from Nebraska in 1934. This was during the depression and we found things no better in
Washington than back home.
Work wasn't plentiful anywhere. We had no job skills but we did know how to work, took
anything offered and weren't fussy about the pay as long as there were a few dimes in it for us.
It was during this
time that I met Claire, the girl who was later to become my wife. Letters I wrote to her from the Yukon have been a
source of material which might have been lost had she not saved many of them. Datelines and articles in quotes are from
these letters and were in- serted wherever they might add interest or clarity to the text.
I had no idea that she
had kept two years of my correspondence. It only came to light when I started researching for this book. She had
insisted that my let- ters be at least three pages long and we laugh about the fact that I was too bashful to write
anything mushy so I had to fill the pages with a running account of day-to-day incidents, many of which I had forgotten
about until the letters came to light.                                                             

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